I recently sold my EdgeRouter Lite, although I really like EdgeOS/Vyatta/VyOS – never used the WebGUI much, always stuck to editing the config file via SSH.

Decided I wanted to move away from proprietary solutions so moved over to a mini ITX box/SSD/Pico power supply/Celeron N3150 – zero moving parts so silent. The N3150 has AES-NI so I expect it should be able to deal with VPNs better than the EdgeRouter. It currently runs pfSense.

Obviously with pfSense you’re basically building a PC to suit your personal needs, in my case I wanted silence – so no moving parts, I also had spare DDR3 RAM so needed DDR3 slots on the motherboard. There may be better motherboards out there today …

pfSense fans like Intel based NICs for performance reasons, also you need to check your network card is supported by pfSense – not every one is.